Preface -- Aspects of the cost-effectiveness of restoration process of the F. Reuleaux mechanisms, by Daria Spasskaya and Natalia Terehova -- Application of rapid prototyping technology for modeling the F. Reuleaux mechanisms, by Maxim Vlasov and Marina Samoylova -- Protoepistemology of Mechanical Engineering in Cassiodorus’ Variae or Mission Impossible at Theoderic’s Court, by Nadia Ambrosetti -- The Silk Mill “alla Bolognese”, by Cristiana Bartolomei and Alfonso Ippolito -- Robots in History: Legends and Prototypes from Ancient Times to the Industrial Revolution, by Alessandro Gasparetto -- The First Hundred Years of Mechanism Science at RWTH Aachen University, by Burkhard Corves -- Mock-Up of an Eighteenth-Century Oil Mill via Rapid-Prototyping, by J.C. Montes, Rafael Lopez-Garcia, Ruben Dorado-Vicente and Francisco Javier Trujillo Vilches -- An Introduction to the Ancient Mechanical Wind-instrument Automata, by Yu-Hsun Chen, Jian-Liang Lin and Hong-Sen Yan -- Dynamic Reconstruction of a Colonial Mexican Mechanism, by Juan Carlos Jauregui and Gabriela Rodriguez-Zahar -- Leibniz’s Developments of Machine Science, by Agamenon Oliveira -- On the Mechanics of Living Nature in the Works of V. P. Goryachkin, by Vera Chinenova -- The Transformation of the Largest Aircraft Factory of Romania in Tractors Factory as Result of the Soviet Occupation, by Horia Salca and Dan Savescu -- New Trends in Learning through 3D modeling of Historical Mechanism’s Model, by Olga Egorova, Kirill Samsonov and Alexandra Sevryukova -- Some Inventions by Engineers of the Hellenistic Age, by Cesare Rossi -- DING Gongchen, by Baichun Zhang and Yexin Liu -- Lewis Mumford revisited, by Teun Koestier -- Analysis of Structure, Kinematic and 3D Modeling of Ferguson's Mechanisms, by‏ Valentin Tarabarin and Alexey Kozov -- 19th Century String Models at Cornell University: Ruled Surfaces in Gear Design, by Francis Moon and John Abel -- Mechanism of Laoguanshan Pattern Looms from Late 2nd Century BCE, Chengdu, China, by Feng Zhao, Yi Wang, Qun Luo, Bo Long, Baichun Zhang, Yingchong Xia and Tao Xie -- On the battleship by Ansaldo for Chinese Imperial Navy, by Yibing Fang and Marco Ceccarelli -- Dynamic Analysis of an Ancient Tilt-Hammer, by Umberto Meneghetti -- An Analysis of Micro Scratches on Typical Southern Chinese Bronzes – A case study of Crawler-pattern Nao and Chugong Ge, Lie Sun. .